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Pliable Kitten Back in The DayBack in her day, she had been a pliable kitten they said
Wondered about speaker’s sanity, had he landed on his head?
Two pairs of amber eyes followed me as I wandered from room to room.
I halfway...
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Categories:
age, cat, woman,
Form: Couplet
Wise Old CompanionWho knows who he is; how old he is?
He is older than me, I know that:
He is an ancient being. I am certain
He must be omnipotent and omnipresent;
He knows all (omniscient).
He is from the age...
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Categories:
age, old, wisdom,
Form: Free verse
VanityConfidence drained out of my photographs
Replaced by lines that weren't there
All the hell's getting inside me
Never imagined I'd be here
Bowed on one knee
Burning hope as incense at the altar
Of...
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Categories:
age, angst, cry, hope,
Form: Rhyme
Deep voiceHis deep voice crackles
as he enters adulthood
planting feet on ground...
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Categories:
age,
Form: Senryu
Eerie Morn Out on the PlayporchThere's an eerie feel to the air
A sign of impending storm
All is quieter, still,
Until the birds' row begin to form
The bird's row on the garden fence
Wanting their turn to feed
Of those seeds, which magically appear.
The...
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Categories:
age, health, nature,
Form: Rhyme
unfree newspaperWhat an unfree newspaper writes
According to a leading English newspaper
the alarm is the upcoming election
will labor be back in power
like that would be different from now
England (not Britain) is meddling in the war
in...
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Categories:
abuse, adventure, age,
Form: Free verse
The old fart alter cocker shuffleThe old fart (alter cocker) shuffle
as one fairly long run on sentence
unwittingly made locally famous
courtesy residents here at
Highland Manor Apartments
as first one foot and then the other
painstakingly, and agonizingly dragged
across the cement...
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Categories:
age, courage, death, grave,
Form: Free verse
true loveTrue love?
There is something I want to tell you
the audience I can't see hidden in
the shadow land
I write for you and speak silently
cosmic loneliness, unable to reach out
to touch and to feel
There are not many...
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Categories:
absence, africa, age, birthday,
Form: Blank verse
Longingancient oak with hapless owl
longs to shed his bark and fly
into the sunniest day
young and wisdom free
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Categories:
age,
Form: Dodoitsu
Sleep and SchoolIt’s still light out.
I shouldn’t have fallen asleep so early.
She wakes me up and yells at me to eat.
It’s 6:00 pm.
But she can’t stop me from falling asleep on my homework at 7:00.
When I lie...
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Categories:
age, depression,
Form: Free verse
Andalusian Arabic poemArabic/Andalusian
I sit on my veranda
the breeze is as soft as a child's
good night kiss
the town is well-lit
but moonlight is better
I think of Andalusian
Arabic poems
I tried to translate
but failed
how is it possible
to catch
the ephemeral?
...
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Categories:
age, april, arabic, beautiful,
Form: Blank verse
BreathlessBreath(less)
it happens every day
all day without thought
we breathe
life-giving oxygen
sustaining our organs keeping
our hearts
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Categories:
age, health,
Form: Free verse
ImpermanenceThe residents slowly amble
toward the buffet,
some using canes or walkers,
a few sitting on scooters,
...
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Categories:
age, anxiety, feelings, happiness,
Form: Free verse
Our Reality
The residents slowly amble
toward the buffet,
some using canes or walkers,
a few sitting on scooters,
...
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Categories:
age, change, endurance, feelings,
Form: Free verse
I Do Not pretend to KnowI do not pretend to know,
What is best for you,
But it would please me to know,
I am helping you, find what is best for you,
So, your self-esteem can grow.
...
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Categories:
age, appreciation, celebration, courage,
Form: Didactic
Specific Types of Age Poems
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Definition | What is Age in Poetry?
Poems Related to Age
youth, maturity, life, old age, infancy, milestone, childhood, adolescence, wear and tear, adulthood, middle age, generation, millennium, era, epoch, interim, duration, lifetime, aeon, develop, mature, grow up, grow feeble, grow old,